THE Supreme Court has dismissed the petition for indirect contempt filed by Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr., one of the main perpetrators of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, against ABS-CBN and one of its reporters.
In a decision penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the Supreme Court en banc granted the petition for review on certiorari filed by ABS-CBN and its reporter Jorge Cariño challenging the rulings of the Court of Appeals (CA) which had affirmed the Regional Trial Court's (RTC) refusal to dismiss the indirect contempt petition filed by Ampatuan.
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